Developments coming for 2026
- Better, clearer reporting to teachers. This will show what the students has done in the last day, week, and term. A snapshot view will show where every student in the group is at. There will be a bit to help report writing also.
- Appropriate reporting to students, so that they can see their progress.
- Students must work systematically from a starting point, and only teacher /RTLB/ other adult can allow them to skip or repeat bits.
- Automatic progression from WC 1 to WC 2 to WC 3 …
- Some minor changes within the games to develop orthographic mapping more effectively.
- A senior version with the same chains and other activities, but in an age-appropriate game format and with age-appropriate graphics.
- Wordchain 5 included – multi-syllabic words, Latin, French and Greek spelling patterns.
- A new and revolutionary digital version of the decodable books for older students, books that follow the Wordchain sequence directly. The student reads a section and meets a prompt button. They will then hear the author speaking to them. They may hear, “Perhaps you have not heard that word before, but I have given you some clues. Can you work out what it must mean?” or “I put that word ‘suddenly’ in to tell you that the story is about to change.” or “You must be wondering why, and I have not told you here. But there are some clues coming up…” Vocabulary development, text structure awareness, and inferencing respectively. There may be background information, or a bit about what inspired the book.
- The books will continue to be available in the print version, now with an accompanying teacher version with scripted prompts and discussion points.
- This leads to the structured writing resource, taking deep comprehension further by writing about your reading. How to construct a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, with skills developed progressively and heavily scaffolded.